Question about disk drives

michael8881 · 03-16-2007, 07:26 AM

Can the quality of a disk drive be reduced? For example, if I rip a cd to my computer, then put a finger print or a scratch on the lens, then rip the same cd, will the second rip be of lower qualitly or is it an all or nothing type of thing?

JlCollins005 · 03-16-2007, 08:13 AM

i would think once it got to the point while copying the cd it wouldnt beable to read the rest if u marked it up that bad

michael8881 · 03-29-2007, 02:15 AM

Anybody know for sure?

**The_Other_One** · 03-29-2007, 03:20 AM

CDs have varing degrees of error correction. Should the drive encounter a read error, typically it can be resolved. If it can't, the you get an error. However, the quality should never decrease. With digital data it works or doesn't.

michael8881 · 04-01-2007, 07:57 PM

Thank you.

cqqpp · 04-04-2007, 07:42 AM

Sorry,I dont know

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